PopChat is a research project developed by UCL Knowledge Lab and Ateneo de Manila University that uses pop music videos to help children improve their English language comprehension. The focus of PopChat is on detecting rhymes which is part of phonological awareness development; important for both reading and writing. Following initial research in the London and Manila, the team at UCL worked with oodlü to explore ways to allowing more teachers and students to use songs to help with learning.
Why not have a go at a game now:
To generate PopChat questions you just create a new Question Collection as normal. We recommend that you use the "Bulk Create Questions" option to add the questions. You'll see a new option in the dropdown list (not shown in the video) called "PopChat". Simply select one of the songs you'd like to generate questions for and click "Generate Questions". Ten questions will automatically be generated and added to your Question Collection.
This is an interesting project that uses natural language processing (NLP) to automagically generate the questions and we are delighted to be working with the Universities to bring this to our users.
A special thank you to Tunde and Kaska from UCL for their support with this.
